New specs leak confirms our fears: Samsung Galaxy Gear may only get 10 hours of battery life

0.phoneArena
30 Aug 2013, 18:04posted on

Earlier today, we talked about the potential issues that customers will have to look out for with the Samsung Galaxy Gear and the Sony SmartWatch 2, because we're not convinced the hardware or software is ready for smartwatches yet. One big worry is battery life, and a new leak concerning the specs for the Galaxy Gear, it looks like battery life could be a problem...

48.HansGoneInsane (unregistered)

I can only hope for Samsung that this rumor is not true. It would destroy all their tries to present themselves as an innovator. What speaks in favor of the rumor is that the device is small and therewith doesn't feature much space for the battery. What adds to that is that Android is a pretty demanding OS when it comes to hardware to run smoothly. But powerful hardware drains the battery. WP8 and iOS need fewer specs to perform smoothly.

What speaks against this rumor is the common sense to not bring a 10h lasting watch to the market. Lets see how good Samsung really is.

a lot of these features seem useless. Why does a watch need a dual core processor or a 4mp camera or 1gb of ram or 8gb storage? The watch is meant to 1) show time of course 2) set an alarm 3) use some aux functions like stopwatch, lap times, calculator 4) show emails and notifications from your phone so you dont need to pull it out of your pocket every time you wanna check these.

Is samsung planning on this device working separately from a phone as well as with it? Cant think of any other reason it would need all this stuff.

Typical Samsung. They hear what Apple's doing and they rush something. This device will be a big joke. I give Apple a lot of credit for taking their time so at least there watch will be much better than the cheap garbage that Samsung puts out.

I bet if the brand was Sony then people would not bash it as much, but because it is Samsung, they can deliberately bash the company for making this idea (smartwatch).
I think that it is fine, its just there are a lot of people who just think Sony is the 'best' (obviously not, judging by their products).

Premium deign? what design..its just a basic boring design thats repeated...and no, its not getting more attention, its just that the phone has nothing going for it and people just rant on about how good Sony is, (like you)

"its just a basic boring design thats repeated"
*cough*samsung*cough*
and sonys design has more variations than samsung designs. The power button isnt changed coz its like a signature button now. hv u seen the low end and midrange xperias design? only the highend designs are somewhat similar, and if it aint broken, dont fix it. whereas samsungs design is broken and needs to be fixed. besides, u expect them to release a drastically different design everytime they release a phone? u nuts?

Sony, with the SW2, is at its third generation (considering the sonyericsson liveview as the first generation), phone arena is making a lot of fuss on the samsung's smartwatch while sony's watches are already on the market, hw and sw are not rushed, there are apps and the battery lasts a reasonable amount of time.

This is stupid. This whole concept that people are going to be showing up in droves to buy "smart" watches to wear in place of regular watches is ridiculous. It's nothing more than a manufacturer driven demand and from the looks of this site and others, you all are buying into without even thinking about whether or not it even makes sense to have something like this. News flash: you have a phone which does everything and more, that half of you have attached to your hand anyway.

Go ahead though, spend your money on it, show it off so you look cool and enjoy realizing how dumb it is a month later.

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